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NewRelic came to a client's rescue this week, showing us a brutal irony... passenger+traffic was blowing out the server's memory, making it swap to disk, causing a site slowdown just as traffic was increasing. How does your server scale under increasing load? NewRelic can help you figure it out.

As a young boy growing up in Drusseltein, I dreamed of the day when I could have an army of virtual machines doing my bidding so I could TAKE OVER THE WORLD! I called it my VM Clusterinator. Thanks to this screencast by Tim Rozenblatt, it just might be possible.

Peter Horn wrote in this week pointing us to tabulator. In short, it does for table creation what formtastic does for forms. A tight DSL that makes gorgeous looking forms with filtering, sorting, etc super-easy.

And a shoutout to my friend Ryan McGeary who wrote an excellent blog article on his bundler workflow. When I had a question this week about bundle install in production vs. rvm gemsets and passenger integration, his article resolved my consternation and improved my app deploy process. Thanks Ryan!

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Today's Ruby5 assault begins with a generous helping of slop and a swamp rat battle. It rages on with talk of zombies and cucumbers, static site generation and natural language parsing. Finally we bring it all home with a new way to protect sensitive user data and some fresh-squeezed JRuby.